Oh Holly Night – Live with Michele

Published on August 23, 2023September 23, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Christmas, Fun Fold, Live with Michele, Uncategorized

Last night on ‘Live with Michele’ I created this Fun Fold – Faux Step Card, using the ‘O Holy Night Suite’. This suite you will find in the Sept – Dec Mini Catalogue by Stampin’ Up!®.

I saw this card created by Mary Deatherage, Mary used the Trucking Along Bundle to create her fun card. Which you can see HERE. Mary has great diagrams on the scoring lines, other wise you will see on my attached video, below.

O Holy Night is a BIG suite of products, for this card I have only used half of it. For me it really depicts what Christmas is all about with the Nativity scene depicting the birth of Jesus.

The Designer Series Paper, O Holy Night, has 3 sheets of scenes depicting desert, towns and night sky. They are 12 x 12″ (30 x 30cm), great for both cards and scapbooking. The only thing is you need to plan out what sections you want to use on your card and cut wisely. With my card below I used half a sheet, which left me with a few off cuts I will try to use on other projects.

O Holy Night Suite by Stampin' Up! from the 2023 Sept - Dec Mini Catalogue. This is a Faux Side Step Card

Measurements Used…

These measurements may have changed from original, I’m sorry about that. Went to fix a small error and lost the lot, so had to rewrite these. Sorry for any inconvenience.

	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Night of Navy	5 ½” x 8”, score along long edge @ 1”, 2”, 5”	14.9 x 20cm, score along long edge @2.5, 5,12.5cm
Card Base Front	DSP	⅝ x 5¼”	2.2 x 14.6cm
Card Base Back	DSP	2⅝ x 5¼”	7.2 x 14.6cm
Card Front	Night of Navy	3 x 6”, scored at 4¼”	8.5 x 15.5cm, score at 10.5cm
Card Front	DSP	2⅝ x 4⅛”	8.2 x 10.2cm
Sentiment	Very Vanilla	2½ x 2½”	6 x 6cm
Back Panel	Very Vanilla	2⅝ x 5¼”	7.2 x 14.6cm
Strip	DSP	½ x 5¼”	1.3 x 14.6cm
Nativity Scene & Camel	Basic Black	4¼ x 3¼”	8.5 x 10.5

How to…

Cut all cardstock and score
Designer Series Paper – All pieces are cut from a half sheet of DSP 15 x 30cm (6 x 12″), you need to plan out were you will be cutting first. Cut each piece in order as below, see video.
1. Cut the Card Base Strip DSP first – this is so you can cut in one strip.
2. Card Front Panel – Decide how much ground to sky you want to use. Cut your depth 10.2cm (4⅛”) and then work out the width for star placement on your card front.
3. Remaining DSP- cut Card Base and writing panel strip
Stamp sentiment onto Very Vanilla using Night of Navy Ink Pad and die cut using stitched square from Stylish Shapes
Adhere the Card Base DSP strip to the small mountain fold and Card Base DSP to larger mountain fold
Adhere the Card Front DSP to Card Front.
Add glue to the back of the card front…ONLY on the bottom 2cm ( 1″), height of the small mountain.
Fold card and adhere the back section of the Card Front to the back of the Card Base, again only approx 1cm (½”)
Add sentiment to card base.
Attach Nativity Scene with mini dimensionals
Writing panel
- Attach DSP strip along the bottom
- Adhere the camel, being careful on the amount of glue used.
- Attach to the back of the Card Base.
Add Wink of Stella to star.

Back View - O Holy Night Suite by Stampin' Up! from the 2023 Sept - Dec Mini Catalogue. This is a Faux Side Step Card

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All products used are listed below and are linked to my On-Line Store The O Holy Night Products will be avalble in September – December.

Product List

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

Stylish Shapes Dies

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

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Water Colour Circles Technique – Live with Michele

Published on August 20, 2023August 20, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Uncategorized, Water Colour

On Friday in my ‘Live with Michele’ I created this card using a fun technique using the NEW Stampin’ Write Markers. What makes these new? The fine tip nib has been improved, it is a thicker nib which helps with this technique.

The Stampin’ Write markers are water based ink and when used on the Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper allows the ink to move and spread outwards, blurring the lines.

I have kept the circles simple by using one colour per circle, when using more then one colour you will blend colours which creates new colours…so the fun you can create is wonderful. I would suggest only using 3 colours, too many and you could end up making mud….

There are a few different ways you can work this.

Trace one circle at a time and then go around the circle with a water painter. Then add next circle.
Trace all circles in the 3 colours before adding water with the water painters. Then go around each one with the water painters blending the colours

How To…

To create the circles I made a template from window sheets and die cut circles using the Reach for the Stars Dies. This can then be kept for use in other places where you may want circles.
Tip: Play with water colour paper and markers before woking on your card piece. I have a cheap pad of water colour paper to test different ideas out.
Using the Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper I worked one circle at a time.
Marker Colours used Berry Burst, Azure Afternoon, Lemon Lime Twist.
Using one colour at a time trace of one circle with marker. Then using the water painter blend the lines with a wet brush, blend as much as you want.
Continue by adding more circles and going around each with the water painters. I also worked one colour at a time.

I said in my video that I was using Azure Afternoon Cardstock for the sentiment, I ended up using Tahitian Tide cardstock, when I look back now I think the Azure Afternoon would have been too dark anyway.

Measurements Used…

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Product List

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

Water Painters

Berry Burst A4 Cardstock

Lemon Lime Twist A4 Cardstock

Tahitian Tide A4 Cardstock

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Baker's Twine Essentials Pack

Brights Stampin' Write Markers

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Colour & Contour – Live with Michele

Published on August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Just Add Ink, Live with Michele, Simple Stamping, Stamps Paper & Ink, Thank You, Uncategorized

Today I’m taking part in the Just Add Ink ‘Clean & Simple’ Challenge and I am using Stampin’ Up!® Colour & Contour Stamps and Scalloped Contours Dies from the Annual Catalogue.

Just Add Ink #665

What is Clean & Simple?…Below is the definition by Just Add Ink, for some it’s just “Stamps, Paper, Ink”

What is “Clean & Simple”…Minimal accents and layers, clean colour pallets, nothing overly fussy…Basically the less is more concept!

Others say…there must be ‘White Space, Minimal layers, clean lines and shapes, few embellishments and they must be small, Patterned, Designer, textured, glittered and metallic paper to be kept to an absolute minimum’

Make sure you head over to Just Add Ink and check what the Design Team have created, make sure you also look at the other entries….better still create a project and add it to the challenge, have fun!

Colour & Contour

This card I used a very simple design to keep in with the ‘Clean & Simple’ theme….I have a Card Base and a Card front, both in white. The Card Front I added texture by using a mask from the New Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks (available in September to Order) with Smoky Slate.

The card front is adhere to the card base with multi purpose glue, making the two layers as one. You could very easily make this card with out the card front.

The flower image from Colours & Contours is a very simple design but has a beautiful flow to it with the curves lines of the flowers and stem. It is a two step stamp where there is a second stamp to fill in the petals of the flower heads and bud. I used Memento Tuxedo Black to stamp my image and Bubble Bath to colour the petals and bud.

I finished of this card with just 3 Classic Matt Dots.

Measurements Used…

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Stampin’ Up! products used in today’s Project

All products used are listed below and are linked to my On-Line Store. Only product not shown is Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks, not available until September

Product List

Color & Contour Photopolymer Stamp Set

Scalloped Contours Dies

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad

Bubble Bath Classic Stampin' Pad

Classic Matte Dots

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Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder

Published on August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: GDP Challeges, Thank You, Uncategorized

Today I have used a NEW product found in the Sept-Dec 2023 Stampin’ Up! ® Mini Catalogue…..Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder.

It has that old world charm, that has been worn over time. It’s like that rug on the floor that has had people walking over it for hundreds of years, it has patches were the pattern is no longer visible but in other areas still vibrant and loved.

I embossed the vellum with the Distressed Tile 3D Folder, which left areas on the vellum that were sheer (allowing the DSP under the vellum to show through) and other areas opaque.

To complete the card I added Timeless Arrangements Bundle and Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper .

I used this card as my entry for the Global Design Project #406

Global Design Project #406 | Sketch Challenge

It’s time for a fabulous sketch challenge this week – there are so many great ways to interpret this sketch and make it your own. We know you’ll love it as much as we do! Here’s the sketch for this week’s challenge:

Why don’t you go to Global Design Project site and check out the other projects completed by the Design Team …. also the other entries.

How to make this card…

Cut all Cardstock and DSP
Vellum – Emboss with Distress Tile 3D Embossing Folder
Die cut leaves and flowers from Timeless Arrangements
- Leaves- Pretty Peacock x 1
- Flowers- Fresh Freesia x 1
- Sm. Flower sprig – Berry Burst x 2
Sentiment – stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black
Adhere DSP to card base
Attach embossed vellum with glue dots over the DSP. Glue Dots are hidden under the textured parts of embossed vellum.
Adhere the layer flowers and leaves behind the sentiment, add dimensional’s and attach to card front. Add Berry Burst flowers with Multi Purpose Glue, tucking them amongst the other flowers and leaves.
Add In-Colour dots to card front. i used the Moody Mauve Dots which work with the Berry Burst in the card.
Adhere the DSP strip to card insert and attach to the inside of the card.

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Berry Burst	5 ½” x 8½”, score @ 4 ¼”	14.9 x 21cm, score @ 10.5 cm
DSP layer	DSP	3 x 5 ½”	7.5 x 14.9cm
Vellum	Vellum	3½ x 4½”	9 x 12cm
Sentiments	Basic White	1¼” x 2½” (Scrap)	3 x 6.5cm (Scrap)
Leaves (on bar)	Pretty Peacock	3 x 3″ (Scrap)	7 x 8cm (Scrap)
Flower (on bar)	Berry Burst	1½” x 4″ (Scrap)	4 x 10cm (Scrap)
Small Flowers	Fresh Freesia	2 x 3″ (Scrap)	5 x 7cm (Scrap)
Card Insert	Basic White	4 x 5¼” (Scrap)	10 x 14.4cm (Scrap)
Insert Strip	DSP	½ x 5¼”	1 x 14.4cm

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Product List

Timeless Arrangements Bundle (English)

Masterfully Made 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

Berry Burst A4 Cardstock

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

2023–2025 In Color™ Dots

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Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks – Live with Michele

Published on August 9, 2023August 9, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Live with Michele, Uncategorized

The wonderful thing about being a Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrator is that you get to play with product before it’s released…Yesterday I received my box of products that I ordered – my Pre-Order.

In my video I go through some of these products, sharing why I purchased them. One of these products is the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks. This pack of masks has 7 masks in it, 3 stand alone masks and 4 that work together to create a simple card front. Each mask is numbered and has a notch above the number making it easy to line up the masks.

In the video I showed the first card I made with these masks, the card below was made with some extra details being….

Adding more than one colour on each mask
Adding texture or detail behind the flowers
Adding extra leaves to fill in some of the white space
Bring the flowers slightly closer

I also used 2 other new products

So Sincere Stamp set – 11 sentiment stamps
Deckled Circles Dies – 14 circle dies the largest being 14.6cm diameter

Measurements Used…

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Cheerful Daisies

Published on August 8, 2023August 8, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Birthday, Just Add Ink, Uncategorized

Today I’m taking part in the Just Add Ink Colour Challenge and I am using Stampin’ Up!® Cheerful Daisies Bundle from the Annual Catalogue.

Just Add Ink #jai664

“Make a project using the colours in the challenge swatch.“

These are such beautiful colours together and very easy to use. They blend well together and give you a soft delicate lacy feel….a modern old world feel!

Cheerful Daisies Bundle

How to make this card…

When creating a card, I like to let it grow…I may have an idea in mind but that doesn’t mean that is how my card will turn out. My layout here is very basic and one that I use a lot ….2 layers on a card base.

My card front or top layer, I like to have a bit of texture. Here I have used the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks & Pool Party Ink to create texture…with the ink darker towards the middle and blending out to nothing around the edges. I also used the Blending brush to add some colour around the edges to take away the stark white of Basic White Cardstock.

The fine detail branches also cut from Basic White Cardstock were coloured with a Blending Brush and Lost Lagoon Ink. I die cut the branches first and then gently run the brush down the branches, taking care not to bend the branches. If you used your brush in a circular motion you could easily damage the die cut. This can also give you more texture as the ink get caught on the edges of the die cut.

The Daisies were stamped onto Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper with VersaMark Ink and embossed with White Embossing Powder. Using a water painter paint your image with water and then add small amounts of diluted (with Water) Fresh Freesia Ink to the center of the flower, letting the ink flow down the petals. Let that dry off before adding more ink and less diluted. The trick with this I have found (through trial and error….lot’s of errors) is to let your work dry off a little before going back with more colour.

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Lost Lagoon	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	Pool Party	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Front	Basic White	3 ⅞ x 5 ⅛”	9.7 x 14.1cm
Sentiment	Basic White	¾ x 4″	1.8 x 10cm
Card Insert	Basic White	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm

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Trucking Along Bundle – Live with Michele

Published on August 6, 2023August 5, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Live with Michele, Uncategorized

On Friday I created this fun card with the Trucking Along Bundle… creating scene’s like this is fun because your telling a story.

Trucking Along stamp set is a 2 step stamp – Outline and Fill. Besides the truck there are stamps that give you different options of what to put inside the truck tray, trees, ground, also sentiments….including ‘Farm Fresh’ – you can stamp on the truck door.

Also with the Trucking Along Building Punch you can punch out the stamped truck or build your truck from the punched out pieces – ‘Punch Art’

Measurements Used…

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Layering Leaves & Bough Punch – Live with Michele

Published on August 5, 2023August 5, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Live with Michele, Sympathy Cards, Uncategorized

Tuesday Night on my ‘Live with Michele’, we rolled the dice to decide what type of card I would make.

In-Colors
Standard Card
Sympathy
Die-Cut
Two-step Stamping

I decided to use the Layering Leaves as I had only received in my latest order. The Layering Leaves was created to go with the Bough Punch that we have had in our Catalogue for a while. Layering Leaves is also a Two- Step Stamp, the leaves was stamped with full strength ink and the fill stamped was stamped off so the colour would be lighter.

Measurements Used…

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Paper Florist Dies & Countryside Inn – Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

Published on August 4, 2023July 23, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Birthday, Fun Fold, Let's Craft Together, Uncategorized

Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.

Tracy has given us a Tic Tac Toe Challenge….choose any three in a row, diagonal, vertical or horizontal.

You will notice we have made a few changes to Let’s Craft Together, we have changed our Logo and have added a few new members. So I hope you will enjoy the extra projects to visit. Please leave a comment as you follow our Hop around Australia.

Paper Florist Dies & Countryside Inn

For my card I am using – Easel Card, Flowers and Blue…….and ‘Yes’ you could say that my card falls into a few other categories as well such as Easel Card, Designer Series Paper and Birthday… O’ well, just making sure I was covered……LOL!

I have chosen two of the new blues or one returning colour and one new – Misty Moonlight and Boho Blue with a little bit of Basic White and Wild Wheat.

Measurements Used..

Tips and Tricks

Card Base – Front was scored diagonally to form Easel Card
Card Front, Countryside Corners Bundle – Stitching Line inked with Misty Moonlight Stampin’ Write Marker and die cut with coordinating die.
Card Insert – Smaller Countryside Corner die cut in Basic White for a writing panel on inside of the card
Countryside label die has 3 dimensionals to give it lift for stopper.
Large Flowers – 2 layers large petals + 1 smaller Petals
Small Flowers Daisy – Each flower has 3 layers

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Apple Harvest & Apple Blossom Dies

Published on August 2, 2023August 2, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Just Add Ink, Uncategorized

Today I’m taking part in the Just Add Ink Challenge and I am using Stampin’ Up!® Apple Harvest stamps and the Apple Blossom Dies. The Apple Harvest stamps are current in our current catalogue. The Apple Blossom Dies, which came out with a promotion last year are now discontinued and can be found at the moment in the Clearance Rack (Australia)…..So if you want them get them now!

Just Add Ink #663…Choose Two!

Our Just Add Ink Challenge this week has been suggested by Tina. It’s a Choose Two Challenge that means you can use any products, layout, techniques or colours as long as you include two of the suggested elements.

My choice for the Choose Two Challenge by ‘Just Add Ink” ….. Flowers and Splatters.

Apple Harvest & Apple Blossom Dies

How to make this card…

Card Front – Aged or made ‘Shabby’
- Stamped with the Apple Harvest stamp set using Boho Blue Ink Pad on Boho Blue cardstock
- Splatters – Using White Craft Ink and Night of Navy Ink, watered down a little and splattered using a paint brush.
- Edges of card front roughed up by scissor blades run over them
- Cardstock was scrunched up and some edges rolled….I did this dry, if I moistened the cardstock the ink would of run!
Blossoms
- Large Blossoms x 7
- Small Blossoms x 7
- Die cut from Very Vanilla cardstock , petals coloured with Berry Burst Ink and Blending Brushes.
- Flower centers die cut from Wild Wheat Cardstock, x 7
Leaves
- Die cut from Mossy Meadow Cardstock
- Large x 6
- Small x 7
Branches
- Die cut from Pebble Path Cardstock
Sentiment
- Stamped using Berry Burst ink on Very Vanilla Cardstock.

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Boho Blue	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	Night of Navy	3¾ x 5″	9.5 x 13.9cm
Card Front	Boho Blue	3⅝ x 4⅞”	9.2 x 13.6cm
Flowers	Very Vanilla	4 ¼ x 5 ½”	10.5 14.9cm
Leaves	Mossy Meadow	3 x 4 ¼”	7.5 x 10.5cm
Branches	Pebble Path	3 x 4 ¼”	7.5 x 10.5cm
Sentiment	Very Vanilla	1 x 4″	3 x 10cm
Card Insert	Very Vanilla	4 x 5¼”	10 x 14.1cm